The iconic U2 anthem “With or Without You” might well serve as the perfect soundtrack to the relationship between Umno, PAS, and DAP, marked by an unending cycle of dependency and antagonism.

In the latest chapter of this long-running saga, Kedah Umno strategic communications director Syed Mohd Johan Rizal Syed Unan Mashri highlighted that PAS was the first to “sanctify” DAP when it formed a coalition to overthrow the BN government back in 1999.

“We need to...